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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7126-F
President John F. Kennedy presents an “E-for-Export” certificate of excellence (as part of the Export Expansion Program) for Isbrandtsen Steamship Company, Inc. to the company’s president, Jakob Isbrandtsen. Left to right: award recipient and President of Dan River Mills, Inc., William J. Erwin; Congressman Thomas J. O’Brien (Illinois); Senator Claiborne Pell (Rhode Island); Congressman Emanuel Celler (New York); Congressman William F. Ryan (New York); Mr. Isbrandtsen; Congressman George P. Miller (California); Secretary of Commerce, Luther H. Hodges; Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Affairs, Jack Behrman (behind Secretary Hodges); Congressman Leonard Farbstein (New York); President Kennedy; Senator Clair Engle (California); White House Secret Service agent, Charlie Kunkel. Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C.